Discovery of a bifunctional acyltransferase responsible for ornithine lipid synthesis in Serratia proteamaculans

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1487-1496

  Vences Guzmán, Miguel Ángel ^a   Guan, Ziqiang ^b   Escobedo Hinojosa, Wendy Itzel ^a   Bermúdez Barrientos, José Roberto ^a   Geiger, Otto ^a   Sohlenkamp, Christian ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CYTOPHAGA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM JOHNSONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; SERRATIA PROTEAMACULANS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ACYLTRANSFERASE; LIPID; MEMBRANE LIPID; ORNITHINE; ORNITHINE CONTAINING AMINOLIPID;

ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BACTEROIDETES; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOPHAGA; ENZYMOLOGY; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEOBACTERIA; SERRATIA;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTEROIDETES; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENE DELETION; LIPIDS; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; ORNITHINE; PROTEOBACTERIA; SERRATIA;

EID: 84928306127     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12562     Document Type: Article

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